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Wow, thank you for the comments!
@Reyan: I did a lot of digging around before deciding on landscape and found two decks that are all landscape, The Wolf Pack Tarot and Tarot of the Curious East, if you'd like to look at them. I particularly like the Curious East aesthetic, even if it's not one I'll be following. I do think animal decks can have their drawbacks, particularly when talking about very human cards like the Hierophant and Justice (or, at least, those are the cards I've had to spend the most time working on an image for), but I do hope my style will help convey what needs to be shown, and as you said I will have a lot of subjects to work with and do love utilizing color. Dinosaur naming conventions have been especially helpful in choosing what dino will go on which card.
@sparklingRaven: I certainly plan on following through! At the very least I think I can manage a majors deck with the notes I have right now, but I am keeping my mind open for some solid suits ideas. I'm glad to meet another person as terrifically interested in them and in tarot as I am, haha.
I hadn't thought about time periods for the suits, but that's something I'll have to sniff around in. The broad dinosaur types are certainly candidates (I especially think things like maniraptors would make good swords, considering their intelligence, speed, and famous killing claws). I'm also teasing with the idea of making Cups into Eggs, given that they're both vaguely circular/spherical vessels which hold liquid, and I think Eggs make a good symbol of emotion (and shattered eggs for a very striking Five of Cups card). I'm a little nervous as a relative newbie at this messing too much with the deck structure though, haha.
@GlitterNova: Ohh, releasing it with Jurassic World is a good idea haha, at least the Majors. I definitely understand why people might see it as a novelty deck, especially with the changes I've put into it, but they might be underestimating how much I care about dinosaurs I just hope it's accessible for people who approach it from all sorts of angles.
It still has a lot of work left, but here is my Sun card right now. http://i.imgur.com/jOE9btT.png I've got plans for the background to make it more engaging/lively, but have been fiddling with the execution so right now it's pretty boring. I'm pretty happy with the Eodromaeus so far though (as the "dawn runner" and one of the earliest dinosaurs, he seemed like a good candidate for this card).
@Reyan: I did a lot of digging around before deciding on landscape and found two decks that are all landscape, The Wolf Pack Tarot and Tarot of the Curious East, if you'd like to look at them. I particularly like the Curious East aesthetic, even if it's not one I'll be following. I do think animal decks can have their drawbacks, particularly when talking about very human cards like the Hierophant and Justice (or, at least, those are the cards I've had to spend the most time working on an image for), but I do hope my style will help convey what needs to be shown, and as you said I will have a lot of subjects to work with and do love utilizing color. Dinosaur naming conventions have been especially helpful in choosing what dino will go on which card.
@sparklingRaven: I certainly plan on following through! At the very least I think I can manage a majors deck with the notes I have right now, but I am keeping my mind open for some solid suits ideas. I'm glad to meet another person as terrifically interested in them and in tarot as I am, haha.
I hadn't thought about time periods for the suits, but that's something I'll have to sniff around in. The broad dinosaur types are certainly candidates (I especially think things like maniraptors would make good swords, considering their intelligence, speed, and famous killing claws). I'm also teasing with the idea of making Cups into Eggs, given that they're both vaguely circular/spherical vessels which hold liquid, and I think Eggs make a good symbol of emotion (and shattered eggs for a very striking Five of Cups card). I'm a little nervous as a relative newbie at this messing too much with the deck structure though, haha.
@GlitterNova: Ohh, releasing it with Jurassic World is a good idea haha, at least the Majors. I definitely understand why people might see it as a novelty deck, especially with the changes I've put into it, but they might be underestimating how much I care about dinosaurs I just hope it's accessible for people who approach it from all sorts of angles.
It still has a lot of work left, but here is my Sun card right now. http://i.imgur.com/jOE9btT.png I've got plans for the background to make it more engaging/lively, but have been fiddling with the execution so right now it's pretty boring. I'm pretty happy with the Eodromaeus so far though (as the "dawn runner" and one of the earliest dinosaurs, he seemed like a good candidate for this card).